Posts by johocknut

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I would like to point out that in a nearby future there will be a need to merge these new LF universes, and the sooner we get the x8ecox16res boost the sooner we can start catching up to the other universes. Why does it have to take this long to make this server more attractive for the already few people that still play on it. Come on guys, let's get this Universe update under way, it will be a breath of fresh air for everyone =)

they don’t normally merge universes less than a year old so you guys probably won’t get merged until next year now. Any changes aren’t likely to happen until after merges are done if GF does what they normally do.

I’ve never had an issue with merchant to be honest. I’ve hit it twice maybe 3 times sometimes to get better rates. But overall you tend to get rates that fall in line with standard in game trade rates. The other thing is, it’s cheap. On average it might cost you just over $1 to call and get good rates if you have to hit the button a couple times. Even for a f2p player who collects DM via expos that’s still a very low cost compared to many other things in this game.

So your best bet is submit a ticket to the support team using the support button in game. Submit the time of the attacks and screen shot the combat reports. If all the attacks. Should result in a bashing ban *if* they were all on the same planet or moon. As it stands right now bashing is considered to be 6 or more attacks in one 24 hour period on one planet or moon

I don’t like this idea. While I do feel Astro needs some minor changes, this doesn’t seem like a good idea. This change would see me go from having 16 planets to 21. Going from damn near 1b metal per pack to nearly 1.5b pretty quickly. This would make Astro 30 this much quicker, giving me yet another planet, so now I’d be at 22. Then Astro 31 is likely to happen pretty quick. Now 23 planets. Add in the fact I haven’t even seen lifeforms yet and suddenly Astro 33 is completely doable as well.

I’d rather see Astro add some functionality to something rather than just adding another way to get res faster.

Merchant hasn’t changed at all in the last few weeks. I called a merchant twice last week to sell deut. I got 3:2:1 in one case and on the other time I was damn near close to that. So no, merchant has not been “nerfed”

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Why does GF choose the settings for new universes?

I trust them, simple as that. I think the team is more than capable to filter the desires of this thread and convert it in reasonable settings.

Did I read that right? Trust GF to get a merge right.......

Cheers for one of the best laughs in the last 20 years this game has existed.

In all seriousness there needs to be a PLAYER poll for the settings. Please.

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I'm not refusing you your player poll. It's just not before the merge but afterwards.
Because ok, let's assume we do a poll in each universe before the merge poll.
There are a few problems you get then.

- First of all, you don't know which option will win the merge poll. This would make the players poll lengthy. You would need a poll in case option 1 wins, in case option 2 wins etc.

- Second, let's say universe 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 will be merged in universe A and B. Those 5 universes all got a different outcome for their poll and to make it even more complicated, a part of the players will migrate to universe A and another part to universe B. What are you going to do? You'll still end up needing to trust GF that they make logical decisions based on the outcome.

You don't have these problems when you do a player poll after the merge poll. You know at that point which merge option won and you know the exact population per universe after the merge poll.

A players poll after the merge poll would also be much more logical, first you poll the global settings and after that the detailed settings, not the other way around.

PS: Sometimes I really wonder why people stay here if they trust GF absolutely not. GF will forever make the important decisions so it seems like some peeps are torturing themselves here…

Or let's say it different, I'd always play a game where I trust the decisions from the organisation behind it…

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they aren’t talking about a poll for each universe to vote on where to go. They’re talking about polling every involved universe to see which of the two options that were already laid out is best. Players then decide for themselves which target universe option is best for themselves in the option that wins.

Why bother polling at all if you’re going to do it post merge. Makes no sense

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What you describe here is what I mean by the merge poll. That goes first. I think we both mean the same, we just describe it different.

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Then why the post explaining exactly what is going to happen anyways. What I wrote is probably what’s going to happen. What you wrote is something else entirely

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Why does GF choose the settings for new universes?

I trust them, simple as that. I think the team is more than capable to filter the desires of this thread and convert it in reasonable settings.

Did I read that right? Trust GF to get a merge right.......

Cheers for one of the best laughs in the last 20 years this game has existed.

In all seriousness there needs to be a PLAYER poll for the settings. Please.

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I'm not refusing you your player poll. It's just not before the merge but afterwards.
Because ok, let's assume we do a poll in each universe before the merge poll.
There are a few problems you get then.

- First of all, you don't know which option will win the merge poll. This would make the players poll lengthy. You would need a poll in case option 1 wins, in case option 2 wins etc.

- Second, let's say universe 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5 will be merged in universe A and B. Those 5 universes all got a different outcome for their poll and to make it even more complicated, a part of the players will migrate to universe A and another part to universe B. What are you going to do? You'll still end up needing to trust GF that they make logical decisions based on the outcome.

You don't have these problems when you do a player poll after the merge poll. You know at that point which merge option won and you know the exact population per universe after the merge poll.

A players poll after the merge poll would also be much more logical, first you poll the global settings and after that the detailed settings, not the other way around.

PS: Sometimes I really wonder why people stay here if they trust GF absolutely not. GF will forever make the important decisions so it seems like some peeps are torturing themselves here…

Or let's say it different, I'd always play a game where I trust the decisions from the organisation behind it…

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they aren’t talking about a poll for each universe to vote on where to go. They’re talking about polling every involved universe to see which of the two options that were already laid out is best. Players then decide for themselves which target universe option is best for themselves in the option that wins.

Why bother polling at all if you’re going to do it post merge. Makes no sense

To Be Fair if you read the terms and conditions your accounts don't technically belong to you. Not to stir anything up. Besides, the graveyard was never intended to be a tool to move from uni to uni so this move makes perfect sense it was only meant as a way to deal with the large volume of vmoded and inactive accounts on servers

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The advantage is that you instantly convert a resource you do not need, to a resource that you do need. The flexible rates is an obvious attempt from Gameforge to get you to spend more dark matter. It's very similar to lootboxes, you don't know what you get before you pay for it.

If you want to fix merchant trade rates. I think a better argument for doing so would be to counter pushing.

Nothing will happen anyway though. Too much dark matter is spent on getting new conversion rates and Gameforge doesn't want to change that.

i dont think you are correct.

1. that is not the advantage because i have so many people in my alliance that are always ready for a trade.

2. they cant get people to spend dark matter when everybody knows its a terrible rate and would rather trade with friends. so this feature is almost obsolete. except for noobs.

3. merchant trader rates have nothing to do with pushing. merchant trader is just a 1 person thing.

4. i bet rarely does anyone push the button more than once.

this is not a smart feature and needs to be fixed.

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lol people use it all the time. Merching is a big thing people buy cheap deut for crystal then merch crystal into deut at a better rate and the cycle repeats. So yes, people push the button more than once, sometimes 4 or 5 times. There is nothing wrong with the rates that exist on merchant. Merchant trade rates have *everything* to do with pushing. It’s the reason why they are the way they are. It’s one of the few features that actually helps vs hinders.

I misread the post but yeah. If you’re after a specific trade rate it’s often cheaper to arrange it with another player. It is pretty rare to find someone willing to trade at that max trade rate though. Most universes these days the average seems to be 2.5-1.5-1 for trade rates

The Max is 3:1 same as in game so you’d have to provide a screen shot of what you’re talking about.

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Does the target uni needs to be one of the old one , GF could create 2-3 fresh target unis and everyone could chose where they want to be moved , even those who never had the chance to be exodus uni

they already said they weren't going to do that so I think they're there until the end of time unless something changes

that is correct

they have to be vmoded

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I asked the graveyard as a target and it's not possible.

I didn't get a reason but I guess it's to avoid people joining LF universes masively, that might cause lag, as they would make too many LF levels requests in a short time (that it's reason why they are not able to activate LF on old universes yet).

Who did you ask? Do they have a corporate email address we can ping? Because this merge and the graveyard top 20 restrictions are BS and everyone is pissed. And they (whoever they are) keep hiding behind the volunteer staff. We're telling everyone to email info@gameforge.com and open tickets and just elevate them right to COMA and get someone from Game Forge to respond to their customers, you know the players? The people that keep this game afloat. The volunteer staff should all just walk at this point because this customer service they're being forced to do is disgusting.

VPNs are still forbidden

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Do not compare OGame.ORG to OGame.TR, .RO, .US or other servers. If you want to play there and maybe have matched income-pricing in-game, go there, ORG is ORG and that means everyone pays the same amount for the same amount of DM.

But that isn't even true. Where I live I get a shade over 30,000 DM per dollar spent....my alliance mates from the UK get over 36k for that same dollar.

You might want to check that... They get 36k for a Pound Sterling...

EDIT: You should also only calculate at the base rate of DM via the same payment method.

I realize that. That's converted to my currency. I get less DM per dollar than people in the UK get for the same amount of money after conversion.

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Only players with purchased dark matter available that don't select any target, are moved to the graveyard

Is this a new change...I don't recall them letting people do that in the last merge.

So basically, if we have paid DM we can go right to the graveyard and then any community/uni we want as long as we meet the graveyard rules?

It was supposed to be like that also in the last merge, but I don't know anyone who did it on purpose so I can't guarantee it worked perfectly. It is how it should work.

I would put vmode last day of merge phase to be sure.

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That's weird because it flies directly in the face of what the merge FAQ says.

which links to this thread.... Merge Discussion

Which says

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For those who are wondering if a merge to the Graveyard server is possible, this is how it works:

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Regarding the graveyard moves, how the system works is as follows: inactive accounts go to the graveyard at the end of the merge. Active accounts end up in a random target from the listed ones for the specific group.

The reality showed something different though, we do have a few accounts that were active and ended up in the graveyard after all, not all actives, but definitely some did in every merge we did so far- it could have something to do with the space left in the target servers at the end of the merge- it is being monitored. The good thing is that this has an easy solution, either the player moves the account to an active server or through support we can help and move into a target manually. The best part of this is that so far in all merges we had we didn't really have cases where an account was not found at the end, either we can help or our devs can, but no major issues have happened through these moves.

Something also important to know is that the alliances get deleted and they have to be created again in the target, the alliance class is lost and you have to wait for the cooldown to select an alliance class in the new target/new alliance. It is not ideal and was not super bad before the alliances class update, but now it is and you need to keep it in mind.

In other words: Your account will be moved to a RANDOM TARGET if you do not merge your account.

In some rare cases, magic happens and active accounts get incorrectly moved to the Graveyard.

DO NOT count on your account moving to the Graveyard!

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So which is right here?

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Do not compare OGame.ORG to OGame.TR, .RO, .US or other servers. If you want to play there and maybe have matched income-pricing in-game, go there, ORG is ORG and that means everyone pays the same amount for the same amount of DM.

But that isn't even true. Where I live I get a shade over 30,000 DM per dollar spent....my alliance mates from the UK get over 36k for that same dollar.

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So, I wouldn't call myself a seasoned player (I haven't been around for years like some of you people), but I've been playing for the last year across 4 unis, and I can definitely recognise the importance of keeping fleet speeds similar. The bump in economy and research speeds are welcome by all players, but fleet speeds and additional factors like deut consumption %, DF %, DiDf, probe storage and galaxy numbers are all things that can also cause discontent.

In general, there really should be 3 different servers, all with different fleet speeds. The slowest server I've played was at 2x war speed, and coming from only 4x war speeds it demotivated me to fleet, but I could be a collector and play in peace. There's a lot of people that do not have time to put up with a 4x war speed, and god forbid playing a 5-6x war speed, I wouldn't want to play there myself.

The speeds should be more equally spaced out to account for our friends on the slower servers, so maybe having 3 servers on 2x, 4x and 6x could be an option. If the fastest a server will be set at is 5x, it should have at least something more interesting going for it compared to the 4x one, like DiDF or something along those lines.

On a last note, please never make a server again that does not support ACS.

And a last question, that I'm not sure was brought up earlier on - would the new target unis have lifeforms? I've avoided playing on those servers thus far, so I'd rather have the choice of whether or not I get lifeforms.

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they’re all going to have lifeforms at some point. For older unis it’s not going to happen for at least another month or so.